cwt's Usage Examples:

Quantities of raw and refined cane and beet sugar in tons avoirdupois imported into the United Kingdom in 1870 and in 1875, and yearly from 1880 to 1901 inclusive, with the consumption per head of the population in lb and the price per cwt.

, and the abscissae the distance in miles measured from the Canso end; as the strain is proportional to the depth, 18 cwts.

; dead rabbits, 656,078 cwt.

16 lb wheel and 40 cwt.

The dried or " finished " soda-ash is ground to a pretty fine powder and is packed into wooden casks or " tierces," holding from io to about 20 cwt.

, 1840) distinguishes two kinds of frankincense - " Meaty," selling at "4 per cwt.

At first it was feared that such bars would have a tendency to slip through the concrete in which they were embedded, but experiments have shown that if the bar is not painted but has a natural rusty surface a very considerable adhesion between the concrete and steel - as much as 2 cwt.

; and bacon and hams, 110,000 cwt.

The mean values at the foot of the table-they are not, strictly speaking, exact averages-indicate the average yields per acre in the United Kingdom to be about 31 bushels of wheat, 33 bushels of barley, 40 bushels of oats, 28 bushels of beans, 26 bushels of peas, 44 tons of potatoes, 134 tons of turnips and swedes, 184 tons of mangels, 32 cwt.

, and the weight to nearly 14 cwt.

; meat, unenumerated, 875,032 cwt.

Synonyms:

ton, avoirdupois unit, long hundredweight, quarter, hundredweight, long ton, gross ton,

Antonyms:

front, multiply,